Title: ELCA Presidng Bishop's Easter Message
ELCA NEWS SERVICE - NEWSBRIEF

February 11, 1997

ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP'S EASTER MESSAGE

"The resurrection of Jesus opens the door to a larger world than
the one we live in every day.  We see friends die and they are
gone, but God has shown us that it is possible for them to live
in a new way.  We see evil go unpunished and good go
unrecognized, but God has shown us that this life is not the end
of the story.  We see a few people with great power and many
others with none, but Jesus has said that, in God's time, the
last shall be first and the first last.  At Easter time we get a
peek through the door into that larger and more lasting world.
It changes the way we live in this one."

                        The Rev. H. George Anderson
                        Presiding Bishop
                        Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
                        Easter 1997

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